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What is your favourite gaming console you have played?

PS Vita or PS2.

PS2 mainly for the games, so many fantastic ones I still play and replay decades later. Keeping track per platform the owned-played ratio and how many liked games in absolute numbers each has for me, the PS2 is still king in both. Even lesser known games I generally have a blast with.

On the Vita, its library isn't as strong as the PS2's, even if many of my favorite games were found through the Vita. But it compensates at being a fantastic console to mod. While I know people modding consoles do it for playing ilegitimate copies of games, if you ignore that, its mods still give you a lot to use the console for, possibly risking seeing the console dying in your hands while you read an ebook on it, try some homebrew ROM from Itchio, play with PSP homebrews, etc. Also it's a bit of a learning curve and technical information on it is sparse, but learning how it ticks makes tinkering second nature (...unlike the PS3 =.=").

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Sonic Game Recomendation?

Only played the earlier games as they were included in some super old collection (Sonic Mega Collection Plus), but of these, all were pretty fun.

A tip: in one those earlier games, if a moving barrel never seems to fully move enough up or down, stay still and hold the directional button to the direction you want.

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Easy script to autogenerate an RSS feed for your site

The second paragraph here, copied from the introduction paragraph in thr linked site, is the most important one.

Additionally, the idea is that you place the .js script provided by the article in your site's files, configuring according to the instructions also provided by the article.

And if I'm reading the script right, it's for Neocities sites specifically?

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I'm tired of GTA

Understandable.

What I'd suggest is avoiding places that hyperfocus on GTA 6, or whatever the current hype is, and seek games less talked about, like indies and retro games. Things get calmer once you avoid being bombarded by hype 24/7.

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RPG Maker Web Forum closing later this year; FAQ suggests the community to backup what they wish to preserve

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About the Israel part, I get a sensation the only thing Reddit is favorable towards is running its own brand to the ground by any means necessary. Anything gets you a ban there from what I can observe, even non-ideological stuff. Even VPN IPs they seem to have configured the site to use as a means to spread bans, an account ban tarnishing the given IP, and another user trying to log in to that IP tarnishing his/her account, tarnishing also other IPs the user may try to use.

About forums dying, in RPG Maker's case, though they give the thumbs up for people to backup whatever they can, which is nice, a question comes to mind, why not leave the old forum as read only, similar to what GOG does with its archived forums (e.g. the Russian and Brazilian sections)? Upkeep and maintenance of a static section of a site should be minimal.

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Running my own fediverse instance for the people who need it the most

You'd be putting your life on the line, so a suggestion if you go through with this idea:

Have someone you can entrust the site to that wouldn't be targeted by the regime (at least immediately, maybe a foreigner?) in case you go MIA, or someone "suicides" you.

Also, hosting an anti-dictatorship platform fully within the borders the dictatorship controls means it could easily hunt down those hosting it. They wouldn't need to pick leaves one by one if they chop the whole tree down, in an analogy. From what I follow of news about Iran, its regime appears to be more immediately an enemy of the US, Israel, Lebanon and Russia, and the EU governments appear to be shifting to be openly against it, so maybe worth looking for VPS providers aligned with those countries, I'd think.

Also, people often use Telegram, but internet being cut makes it somewhat unreliable. Alternatively, what P2P or other portable relay technologies are there, so that even if the origin of the network disappears or internet is cut, it keeps floating around? I can only think of amateur radio broadcast, similar to how Poles did in the Iron Curtain time, but similarly to there back then, you'd need to be on the run after each short broadcast, so you're not easily found.